In this episode of Data Exposed, Scott Klein is joined by David Makogon - Azure Architect in DX Stategic Engagements team at Microsoft. Today Scott and David talk Graph database, a lesser known NoSQL storage option that is quickly gaining popularity. David helps us understand the differences…

Redis is an open-source in-memory networked key/value store that has been very popular in the Linux community and is now available for Windows developers as well, via a Windows version from Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. In this screencast, MS Open Tech lead evangelist Doug Mahugh covers how to…

Get ready to understand model and Tempdb database settings, database file placement, and how to determine the number of content databases. This module goes over how to modify model database to reflect configuration of new databases and configure Tempdb for improved performance, and much more.…

Dr. Marko A. Rodriguez is the Founder and CEO of the graph technology firm Aurelius and creator of the graph traversal language Gremlin. He has focused his academic and commercial career on graph theory, network science, and graph-system architecture and development.Here, we learn about graph…

Rich Hickey is the creator of the Clojure programming language. Most recently (over the past couple of years), Rich has been putting his iconoclastic ways to work on data programmability. The result is a new type of database, Datomic. Datomic is a database of flexible, time-based facts, supporting…

At GOTO Chicago Functional Programming Night, Erik Meijer and Rich Hickey sat down for a chat about the latest in Rich's programming language, Clojure, and also a had short discussion about one of Rich's latest projects, Datomic, a database written in Clojure. Always a pleasure to get a few titans…

The MongoDB C# driver gives .NET developers the ability to take full advantage of the features of MongoDB. In this video, 10gen software engineer Robert Stam, the author of the driver, shows how to do basic create/read/update/delete operations in C#. You can download the driver from the MongoDB…

Replica sets are the secret to MongoDB's ability to scale out for high availability and great read performance. In this video, 10gen software engineer Sridhar Nanjundeswaran shows how easy it is to create a replica set on Windows, and he then covers some of the common failover scenarios and…